African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990In this lavishly illustrated volume, Sean Dennis Cashman surveys the history of civil rights in twentieth century America. The book charts the principal course of civil rights against the dramatic backdrop of two world wars, the Great Depression, the affluent society of the postwar world, the cultural and social agitation of the 1960s, and the emergence of the new conservatism of the 1970s and 1980s. Cashman describes the profound upheaval that